Aubrey smith biography
Aubrey smith biography
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Aubrey Smith (Royal Navy officer)
Royal Navy admiral (1872-1957)
AdmiralSir Aubrey Clare Hugh SmithKCVOKBECB (22 September 1872 – 6 October 1957) was a Royal Navy officer who saw active service in the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War.
In the mid-1920s he was Naval Representative to the League of Nations.
Early life and career
The son of Hugh Colin Smith (1836–1910), who later became Governor of the Bank of England, by his marriage to Constance Maria Josepha Adeane, and the grandson of John Abel Smith (1802–1871), a banker and member of parliament, the young Smith joined the Royal Navy in 1885 as a midshipman, at the age of thirteen.[1][2] His older brother was Vivian Smith, who the same year left Eton and went up to Cambridge.[3]
In 1893 Smith was promoted lieutenant.[2] On 1 June 1899, he married Elizabeth Emma Beatrice Grosvenor, a daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge, and a niece of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st